Drake is moving and moving fast. He’s in Los Angeles and tried to squeeze an interview in prior to taping the “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” on NBC. Didn’t work. A few hours later, he emerges en route to the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” show- still moving – but equipped with more time. AllHipHop talked to Drake in a surprisingly revealing interview. Why does he feel as if he could have done better with Thank Me Later, even after nearly going Gold in one week? How does he intend to appease his highly critical base and his broader mainstream audience? Does he really want to marry Nicki Minaj? Did he make an error addressing Lil’ Kim? And then there is the Rihanna question, where Drake is completely caught off guard. Through all the questions, Drake has answers, but he really wants to answer the queries about his legitimacy as a contender for greatness. He plans to answer that though his music, which he’ll address in Part 2 of this dialogue.

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE!

Does A-Game tweet about being on the toilet? Thankfully not. Twitter talk in Part 04. We also chop it up with Andreena about the double standard between men and women when it comes to song lyrics. Shouts to James Hellyer behind the camera!

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It’s been a minute since we’ve offered you a chance to win some free goodies so I’m happy to bring you this likkle contest courtesy of Mr. Marco Polo!

First person to e-mail cityonmyback@gmail.com and tell us one song that each of these four producers have produced (Marco Polo, Rich Kidd, MoSS, Frank Dukes) will win Marco Polo’s new CD The Stupendous Adventures of Marco Polo and get 2 tickets to the Beat Showcase/Album Release Party going down this weekend (all info on the flyer above)!

Good luck!

UPDATE: Congrats to MIKE for winning Marco Polo’s new CD as well as 2 tickets to the showcase on Sat. night!

Previous: VIDEO: Marco Polo Beat Showcase Preview

MTV’s special on Drake’s rise to the top. Pretty dope doc. Can’t help but wish this type of thing was coming out of BET.

Wonder how long it’ll be before someone gets creative with the quasi-acapella clips of Drizzy spitting in the studio. No vocals’re safe anymore, lol.

All segments of the special available after the jump!

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The FAT Thursday team (Phat Tony, DJ Fase & SCAM) remix E3’s classic single “Last Resort”.

The original is pretty perfect but this is a cool reinterpretation.

Another Remix from our upcoming ‘FAT Thursday’ Album/Mixtape of “Unofficial” Remixes.

All versions are CLEAN/RADIO Friendly

E3 – Last Resort (FAT Thursday Remix)

E3 – Last Resort (FAT Thursday Remix Instrumental)

E3 – Last Resort (FAT Thursday Remix) (MP3 – DJ Pack)

E3 – Last Resort (FAT Thursday Remix) (WAV – DJ Pack)

Produced By Phat Tony aka Big Tweeze For FAT Thursday Productions

Arranged By Fase

Mixed By Scam

Keyboards – Rory Lavelle

Bass Guitar – Kenny ‘Bounce’ Neal

Listen to more music and remixes by FAT Thursday @ http://soundcloud.com/f-a-t-thursday

http://twitter.com/FatThursday

http://fatthursday.bandcamp.com/

fatthursdaymusic@gmail.com

Previously: NEW MUSIC: Phat Tony aka Big Tweeze feat. Theo3 & Ski “Turn Around Again” (DJ Pack) (Prod. FAT Thursday)

MANIFESTO presents…
TORONTO to BROOKLYN
The Road Trip
JULY 8 (late night) – JULY 12 (early morning)

SIGN UP TODAY & Please spread the word!!

The MANIFESTO crew is hitting the road to take in a weekend in
Brooklyn NY. Festivities will include the debut MANIFESTO Brooklyn
Meets Toronto concert showcase, the 2010 Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival and
the OkayAfrica Celebrate Brooklyn concert at Prospect Park. Whether to
network the weekend away or just enjoy a weekend of music and culture,
we’d love to have you join us!

MANIFESTO Brooklyn Meets Toronto: Shad, Masia One, Tona, Eternia, Rich
Kidd, Punchline, Mr. Mecca, Poison Pen, Jah C + more.

Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival 2010: De La Soul, Buckshot & 5FT, Smif ‘n
Wessun, DJ Evil Dee, Masta Ace, The Money Making Jam Boys (Black
Thought, Dice Raw, Truck North, and P.O.R.N.), Black Milk, Rakaa
Iriscience w/ DJ Babu, Fashawn, Curren$y, Skyzoo, DJ Rhettmatic, and
more.

OkayAfrica: The Roots, Talib Kweli, Bajah + the Dry Eye Crew, and
more. ($3 donation – presented by OkayPlayer.com)

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If only I had the time to just take off on trips like this. Should be dope!

Full details after the jump!

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Seen on HHC!

Yahoo! Music’s Paul Grein puts Drake’s first week TML sales into historical perspective.

Drake’s first full-length album, Thank Me Later, enters The Billboard 200 at #1, with first-week sales of 447,000. This constitutes one of the biggest openings ever for the debut album by a rap artist. It’s bigger than Eminem’s first week with The Slim Shady LP in February 1999 (283,000). It’s even bigger than Kanye West’s first week with The College Dropout in February 2004 (441,000). And today’s sales climate is less favorable now than it was back then (to put it mildly).

Read the full article HERE!

In this clip, Era talks about the music and promo behind his latest mixtape Th1rt3en and breaks down his relationship with producer Beat Merchant. Also, we talk about whether Toronto artists need to move to the U.S. to “make it” or not.

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This is the sh*t. If you’re in the city this weekend and claim to like or know anything about hip-hop then you best be at this event. Peep the vid above to catch a vibe and here’s some more info below:

Marco Polo’s coming home to Toronto for a beat showcase in conjunction with his new album, The Stupendous Adventures of Marco Polo in stores June 29th. On Saturday, June 26th at The Great Hall (1087 Queen St. W, Toronto) Marco Polo, Rich Kidd, Moss & Frank Dukes will be putting on a beat exhibition. Special Performances by Tanika Charles, Promise, Shylow & more. In association with Duck Down Music & Gunnar Optiks.

Previous: ARTWORK: Marco Polo – The Stupendous Adventures of Marco Polo

From ATF!

ATF was in the building where Drake was able to meet and greet his fans on June 21th in Toronto at the HMV on 333 Yonge Street. Hosted by Devo Brown of Flow 93.5, the few hours he spent with fans were action filled. Fans were happy to see their idol Drake for the quick 30 -45 seconds and is now documented in this video. Big shout to David SB for taping this and Jermaine Wills for taking the pictures.

Dope!

Previously: VIDEO: Drake – The Making Of “Show Me A Good Time” (BTS)